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The guillotine, axe [32] and the firing squad were the legal methods of execution during the era of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model, but they eventually evolved into sturdier and more effective machines.
Johann Reichhart (29 April 1893 – 26 April 1972) was a German state-appointed judicial executioner in Bavaria from 1924 to 1946. During the Nazi period, he executed numerous people who were sentenced to death for their resistance to the German government. [1] [2] After the war, he was employed as executioner by the US Military Government in ...
Pages in category "People executed by East Germany by guillotine". The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Victims. 6. Span of crimes. July – November 1937. Country. France. Date apprehended. 8 December 1937. Eugen Weidmann (5 February 1908 – 17 June 1939) was a German criminal and serial killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in France.
Capital punishment in Germany has been abolished for all crimes, and is now explicitly prohibited by the constitution. It was abolished in West Germany in 1949, in the Saarland in 1956 (as part of the Saarland joining West Germany and becoming a state of West Germany), and East Germany in 1987. The last person executed in Germany was the East ...
Lilo and Erich Gloeden, and Elisabeth Kuznitzky, are memorialized by three bronze plaques, stolpersteine, installed outside the location of their apartment. [5] President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert has noted that the national history of each country is the sum of the many, personal stories of people who usually remain unobserved or quickly forgotten like those of the Gloedens, whose ...
To make this bartender-beloved German gin, the producers use 47 different botanicals, including lingonberry, lavender, almond, sage, spruce, and cinnamon, harvested almost entirely in the Black ...
Franz Friedrich Carl Gröpler (22 February 1868, Magdeburg – 30 January 1946, Magdeburg) was Royal Prussian executioner ( German: Scharfrichter) from 1906 to 1937. [ 1] Responsible for carrying out capital punishment in the Prussian provinces, he executed at least 144 people, [ 1] primarily by beheading with an axe, but also with guillotines.